A new SQL Server 2016 install failed at the end: updating permission setting for file ResumeKeyFilter.Store failed. Here is how I fixed this setup error.
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SQL SERVER – Maintenance Plan Error: Failed to Acquire Connection “Local Server Connection”.
None of the maintenance plans worked, though the jobs ran fine. The error was failed to acquire connection “Local server connection”. Here is why.
SQL SERVER – Unable to Bring SQL Cluster Online – Reason: The Account is Disabled
After security hardening, a client’s SQL cluster resource sat in Online Pending, then failed: the account is disabled. Here is how we found and fixed it.
How to Generate Fibonacci Series for the First 1000 Values? – Interview Question of the Week #174
How to generate Fibonacci series for the first 1000 values? Most answers online stop near 70 or 80 values because the numbers get too big. Here is mine.
SQL SERVER – SQL Server Cluster Resource Doesn’t Come Online Randomly
A client’s SQL Server Cluster Resource sometimes failed to come online after a failover to another node. Here is what caused it and how we fixed it.
How an Open Transaction Uses Free Log Space
An open transaction holds free log space hostage. This post runs one transaction in a SIMPLE recovery database and reads the log after the load and after the commit. It explains why the log grows before COMMIT, what ACTIVE_TRANSACTION means, and why a new FULL recovery database behaves like SIMPLE until its first full backup.
Find Who Dropped a Table by Reading the Transaction Log
To find who dropped a table, read the transaction log for the DROPOBJ transaction and look up the login behind its security ID. This post runs that search on a demo database, shows the default trace as a second source when the log has been truncated, and explains what to do when everyone shares one login.
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